United States Quotes - Page 55

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off.

The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.